Well, that would make two of us because I don't use emacs either. I'm using Gedit :)
On Feb 20, 6:21 pm, Blues Renegade <[email protected]> wrote: > Man pages are a holdover from UNIX. > > Info pages are the GNU Linux documentation solution you're looking for, > but they require that the info program is installed. Red Hat > distributions are very good about installing info and info pages. > > My only gripe with info pages is they require me to know how to use > GNU's editor emacs, since info uses emacs navigation techniques. Info > pages are structured and detailed and I believe they are the solution > you're expecting, that are causing your gripes with man pages. > > Since I don't want to have to learn emacs key commands every time I need > to read info pages (cause I don't need to use them often enough to > remember all the keyboard commands), I cheat and look for them online. > Google to the rescue!! LOL > > John > > > > Dos-Man 64 wrote: > > On Feb 20, 12:23 pm, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> It's like what the man pages should have been: organized by context > >> and with meaningful examples. > > >> Regards, > >> - Robert > > > Man pages are one of my pet peeves with linux. A horrid documentation > > system. They're just glorified text files! A lot of programmers > > don't seem to do a good job of documenting their programs, or perhaps > > they are just lazy? Pairing them up with man pages is just a disaster.- > > Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
